A Biography of a Chance Miracleexplores the life of Lena, a young girl growing up in the somewhat vapid, bureaucracyridden and nationalistic Western Ukrainian city of San Francisco. Lena is a misfit from early childhood due to her unwillingness to scorn everything Russian, her propensity for befriending forlorn creatures, her aversion to the status quo, and her fear of living a stupid and meaningless life. As her friends enter college, Lena sets forth on a mission to defend the abused and downtrodden of San Franciscobe they canine or humanarmed with nothing more than an arsenal of humor, stubbornness, chutzpah and no shortage of imagination. Her successes are minimal at best, but in the process of trying to save San Franciscos collective humanity, she may end up saving her own. At first glance a crazy and combative girl, Lena just may be the salvation that the Ukrainians of San Francisco sorely need.With haikulike precision, Tanjas deceptively simple writing style blends surrealism and magical realism with satirical wit, occasionally outlandish humor and poignant social commentary. The German literary media has described her depictions of contemporary Ukraine as full of humor and absurdity, but more exact and harsher than those of her peers, comparing her to the 19thcentury Russian satirist SaltykovShchedrin and hailing her as a name to be remembered. This work, her most provocative to date, was a finalist for the 2012 BBC Book of the Year Award in Ukraine, and has been...

Binding: Paperback;246 pages; Publisher: Zoran Živković; Classification: N/A; Weight: 392.16 g; Dimensions: N/A

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